02/06 - Thick and Thin Thursday!

Randomness!!!

 

Nothing like burning that sweet research money in the name of science.

 

Damn. That's $$$

 

Meanwhile after the weather today:

 

Oh no! That's what my old job now looks like!

 

Oh this sounds interesting...

 

... When requesters fail to provide a fair average hourly wage, or worse, steal the labor of workers with unfair rejections of completed tasks, it is these more vulnerable workers who suffer disproportionately. An pertinent example that immediately comes to mind of the sort of unfair conditions that are extant on the platform would be this very note I am currently writing; the requester in this case has instructed workers to provide a thoughtful and relevant note to you, but has only offered a single dollar in compensation for a task requiring a significant amount of extemporaneous writing ...

 

Title: Survey about sales commissions | Accept Requester: Aaron D. Arndt [A2ZCY12XMM6GUW] Contact TV: [Hrly=$16.15] [Pay=Good] [Approval=~24 hrs] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: [Pay=4.07] [Fast=4.50] [Comm=0.00] [Fair=5.00] [Reviews=14] [ToS=0] TO2: No Reviews Reward: 1.00 Duration: 2:00:00 Available: 1 Description: Answer a survey if you are a salespreson Qualifications: Location In AU, CA, GB, HK, NZ, UM, US, ZA; Masters Exists ; Total approved HITs GreaterThanOrEqualTo 500; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.6.13​

8 min

 

Title: Your experience in the workplace | Accept Requester: [email protected] [A1CKV379YXK9JZ] Contact TV: [Hrly=$25.47] [Pay=Unrated] [Approval=Unrated] [Comm=Unrated] [Rej=0] [Blk=0] TO: No Reviews TO2: No Reviews Reward: 1.50 Duration: 1:00:00 Available: 1 Description: Please help us by answering some questions about your experience in the workplace. Qualifications: Completed my survey already DoesNotExist ; Masters Exists ; HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 75; Location EqualTo US

HIT exported from Mturk Suite v2.6.13​

1:24

 

I was so pissed by this. I sort of Grinched them out in a comment at the end about how they made the test so hard to complete by not putting it all on one page and how it wouldn't scroll smoothly and show all the answers on one page so we could check all answers before submitting and how we had to sit through an extremely long "children's" video for the instructions, when one short document would be better. I thought I must have really missed something. What I think they should do is just give all of us a $40 bonus. I don't want to go through all BS again, just to get to the lottery part.

 

you're assuming that you'll catch the hit again (i realize they said no one would be blocked)

 

Title: Qualification: Question-Answering on Temporal Relations from AllenNLP | PANDA
Requester: Allen NLP [A1DGZA8U7P1YIP]
TurkerView: [ $16.48 / hour ]
Description: Passing this qualification grants you the qualification to work on our pilot at https://worker.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=3NIW7VZHBKSBBAEF7LKRYYA931AGOA. Further passing the pilot qualifies you to work on our large task. You may already see our large tasks ongoing, which is $6/hit and each workers gets paid for hundreds of dollars.
Duration: 180 Min
Available: 1
Reward: $0.10
Qualifications:

• [QN][QATR] passed the standalone qual DoesNotExist
• [QN][QATR] blacklisted DoesNotExist
• [QN][QATR] failed the standalone qual DoesNotExist

[3J567DP9LLINIAULB1RO5DFNCS9FPW]​

 

Title: Answer a survey about several human behavioral variables | PANDA
Requester: Anran [A3T86EMRX40OH7]
TurkerView: [ $13.07 / hour ]
Description: Give us your opinions on the multiple items of human behaviors
Duration: 20 Min
Available: 1
Reward: $0.50
Qualifications:

• Location EqualTo US,

[3UY0U6RXHTU2PR8BESPI6KF9N9HO4B]​

 

Title: Answer a survey about personality and emotions | PANDA
Requester: Mandy Alexander [A1A9RIY7PWYB2N]
TurkerView: [ $55.83 / hour ]
Description: This survey explores the relationship between personality and emotions.
Duration: 180 Min
Available: 0
Reward: $0.50
Qualifications:

• HIT approval rate (%) GreaterThanOrEqualTo 95,

[3VPHDNYYX1RGJZWEPX3TW3ZX8XPXOX]​

 

chris.lab111 [AGRY5NHZLU4PI] (3 mins) Simple choices - $0.25 | PANDA

Good

<24 hours

Unrated

$12.68 / hour
00:01:11 / completion time

Approved! ​

Pros:

Cons:

Catchability: Impossible (HIT Last Seen: 3 hours ago)
Qualifications: Total approved HITs > 100; HIT approval rate (%) > 80; Location EqualTo US;

To read chris.lab111's full profile check out TurkerView!​